Meta reportedly maintains secretive lists of former employees who are prohibited from returning to the company. Some who have reapplied were even courted by their former managers, only to be ghosted after recruiters found they were on a mysterious “ineligible for rehire” list. Former employees are not told when they are added to such lists; […]
A Student Used AI to Beat Amazon’s Brutal Technical Interview. He Got an Offer and Someone Tattled to His University
A Columbia University student is facing a disciplinary hearing at the college after he used an AI program to help him land internships at Amazon, Meta, and TikTok. Roy Lee, the student facing down Columbia, told me he won’t be on campus when the hearing happens, that he plans to leave the University, and that […]
John Oliver Set Up a Guide to Make Your Data Less Valuable to Mark Zuckerberg
Following Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s transparent sucking up to President Trump and a change in content moderation policies across Meta platforms that allow for what is pretty unquestionably hate speech against marginalized groups, lots of people are looking for ways to part with the social media giant. You can count John Oliver among them. On […]
Meta Says It’ll Tattle to Trump If EU Keeps Being Mean
“Daaaaaaaaad, the Europeans are picking on me again!” Alright, so that’s not a direct quote from Meta’s chief of global affairs Joel Kaplan, who spoke at the Munich Security Conference on Sunday, but it’s not far off. According to Bloomberg, Kaplan popped over to Europe to let political leaders there know Meta “won’t shy away” […]
Meta Is Looking to Get Into the AI Humanoid Robot Business
Facebook’s parent company Meta Platforms has moved beyond trying to connect humans and is ready to focus on building robotic ones. According to a report from Bloomberg, Meta is planning to pour money into a new project to build AI-powered humanoid robots. Meta reportedly plans to start the project by building a robot capable of […]
Meta Building Big-Ass Undersea Internet Cable
Meta says it is going to invest multiple billions of dollars over the next few years to build a new subsea internet cable that will span 50,000 kilometers, longer than the Earth’s circumference, and reach five major continents. Project Waterworth, as it is called, is Meta’s first undersea cable project that it is developing on […]
Boycotts Over Meta’s Controversial Policy Changes Haven’t Moved the Needle
Meta’s recent right-wing tilt prompted plenty of people to declare they were ditching the company’s apps, but according to a new report, the Mark Zuckerberg-led company is still doing just fine. Citing data from Apptopia and other analytics firms, Business Insider reports that engagement on Meta’s core apps is “similar now to what it was […]